04 ENCLOSURE0434p ASKIN® XFLAM performance panel cladding

0434p ASKIN® XFLAM performance panel cladding

Branded worksection

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Worksection application

This branded worksection Template is applicable to a lightweight exterior facade cladding system by ASKIN®. The system comprises prefinished composite panels with metal faces bonded to each side of an insulating ASKIN® XFLAM core. It is designed to provide insulated and air-tight connections and with a range of colours, prints and profiles to suit any commercial or residential application. Some applications include:

  • Sports arenas.
  • Residential.
  • School/University facilities.
  • High rise apartments.
  • Hospitals.
  • Data facilities.
  • Shopping centres.
  • Medical centres.
  • Aquatic centres.
  • Sunshades.
  • Awnings.

Guidance text

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Optional text

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Related material located elsewhere in NATSPEC

If a listed worksection is not part of your subscription package and you wish to purchase it, contact NATSPEC.

Related material may be found in other worksections. See for example:

  • 0331 Brick and block construction for brick veneer.
  • 0342 Light steel framing.
  • 0382 Light timber framing.
  • 0423p ASKIN XFLAM performance panel roofing.
  • 0432 Curtain walls for curtain walls.
  • 0433 Stone cladding for stone cladding.
  • 0435 Cladding – planks for hardboard, fibre cement and timber weatherboards.
  • 0436 Cladding – profiled sheet metal for profiled sheet metal products.
  • 0437 Cladding – sheet and pre-assembled systems for fibre cement, compressed fibre cement and pre-fabricated flat cladding systems.
  • 0511 Lining for internal lightweight lining.
  • 0531p ASKIN XFLAM performance panel ceilings.
  • 0528p ASKIN XFLAM performance panel partition system.
  • 0762p ASKIN XFLAM performance panels in cool rooms.

Documenting this and related work

You may document this and related work as follows:

  • Check if your cladding is required to be non-combustible, refer toBCASectionC. Consider adding a requirement inSUBMISSIONSfor evidence of conformance from the contractor.
  • Document the structural support system to your office documentation policy.
  • Document bushfire protection requirements to conform to AS3959 and the BCA. See NATSPECTECHnoteDES018 for information on bushfire protection.

Specifying ESD

ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panels consists of the following sustainable product attributes:

  • Insulated panels for thermal and acoustic performance.
  • Easy to seal slip joint facilitating efficient hermetically sealed construction to allow controlled air flow and heating and cooling of the internal environment.
  • Recycled material. ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panels are 100% recyclable and may incorporate a proportion of granulated offcuts. The steel skins are recovered and recycled into new steel.
  • Include measures to minimise condensation leading to greater equipment life and limiting risk of microbial growth.
  • Prohibition on use of CFCs and HCFCs as blowing agents.
  • Durable components, particularly for corrosion resistance.
  • Provision to reduce transmitted noise and vibration.
  • The ASKIN® XFLAM matrix is pH neutral, inert and resistant to water ingress.
  • An ASKIN® XFLAM production plant has an extremely low carbon footprint, nil water use and has minimal atmospheric or other emissions.
  • During its lifetime, ASKIN® XFLAM insulating material will save many times more energy through reduction of heating and cooling requirements than the energy or resources required for its manufacture.

The following may be specified by including additional text:

  • Metal cladding finished with low VOC or non-VOC finish.

Refer to the NATSPECTECHreportTR01 on specifying ESD.

1General

ASKIN® is a leading manufacturer and installer of insulated architectural facade systems, roofing systems and temperature controlled facilities in Australasia. We embrace a customer first approach in delivering sustainable, lifetime value. With a network of 12 sites throughout Australia and New Zealand, ASKIN®’s vast experience has been built upon a strong foundation dating back to 1964. ASKIN®’s culture of customer first, constant improvement, quality and safety assurance is supported with our technical expertise and ISO9001 accreditation.

1.1Responsibilities

General

Requirement: Provide an ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panel fully insulated exterior facade cladding system and associated work, as documented.

Documented is defined in the 0171 General requirements worksection as meaning contained in the contract documents.

The ASKIN® external wall and façade panel system is fast to install, weather tight and exceeds the thermal requirements of BCA Section J. The prefinished internal lining and superior spanning capability reduces in installation cost.

The responsibility of the designer is to provide a cladding system and associated work which is as follows:

  • Is designed in conformance to the ASKIN® Design Guide.
  • Deals with vapour pressure, condensation, corrosion and thermal movement.
  • Remains intact and waterproof under the local or regional ambient climatic conditions.
  • Resistant to impacts expected in use.
  • Free of irregularities.

If required state the minimum added thermal resistance (R) (m2 K/W).

See NATSPECTECHnoteDES031 for information on specifying R-values.

1.2Company contacts

ASKIN® contacts

Website:

1.3Cross references

General

Requirement: Conform to the following worksection(s):

-0171 General requirements.

The 0171 General requirements worksection contains umbrella requirements for all building and services worksections.

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List the worksections cross referenced by this worksection. The 0171 General requirements worksection references the Common requirements subgroup of worksections. It is not necessary to repeat them here. However, you may also wish to direct the contractor to other worksections where there may be work that is closely associated with this work.

NATSPEC uses generic worksection titles, whether or not there are branded equivalents. If you use a branded worksection, change the cross reference here.

See Related material located elsewhere in NATSPEC in the introduction Guidance.

1.4Manufacturer’s documents

Technical manuals

Website: For more technical information:

-General:

-External walls:

-Maintenance manual:

1.5Submissions

Fire hazard properties

General: Submit evidence that insulation, panels and sealants conform to PRODUCTS, GENERAL, Fire hazard properties.

Maintenance manuals

Requirement: Submit ASKIN® Warranty and maintenance for care and maintenance of ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panel exterior facade system including frequency of inspection and recommended methods of access, cleaning, repair and replacement.

Samples

Approved samples are retained on site and define the acceptable limits of colour and texture variation.

Finish: Submit material swatches of the cladding material showing the typical colour and finish.

Shop drawings

Shop drawings are necessary if some or all of the system is to be designed by the contractor or a specialist subcontractor to meet performance criteria specified. If this is not the case, delete Shop drawings.

General: Submit shop drawings, or standard details and panel installation layouts, to a scale that best describes the detail, showing the following:

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e.g. methods of fixing, required end and side laps, sound insulation, suppression of impact noise, provisions for thermal movement, birdproofing, flashing, ridge cappings, roof water disposal, thermal insulation, vapour barrier, control joint treatment, isolation of incompatible metals, access for maintenance, provision for traffic.

Subcontractors

General: Submit names and contact details of proposed ASKIN® approved installers.

Contact ASKIN® for details of ASKIN® approved installers appropriate to construction in your area.

Tests

The 0171 General requirements worksection covers tests in Definitions and calls for an inspection and testing plan under SUBMISSIONS, Tests.

Edit the Tests subclause to suit the project as required. Refer to NATSPECTECHnoteDES020 for more information on fire behaviour of building materials and assemblies.

Type tests: Submit results, as follows:

Type tests are carried out before the contract. However, submission of evidence of a successful type test may be called up here for requirements specified in SELECTIONS or PRODUCTS when there are no SELECTIONS.

ASKIN® can provide these reports, as required. ASKIN® products listed within this worksection meet the requirements listed below.

ASKIN® can provide BRANZ, FM and CSIRO tests reports on request.

The FM Approvals certification mark is intended to verify that the products described meet FM Approvals’ stated conditions of performance, safety and quality useful to the ends of property conservation. Visit for further information.

Fire hazard properties:

-Average specific extinction area (non-sprinklered buildings): <250m2/kg to AS/NZS3837.

.Smoke growth rate index (non-sprinklered buildings): <100 to ASISO9705 and BCASpecA2.4.

.Group number: To AS/NZS3837 and BCASpecA2.4 or ASISO9705.

ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panel is a Group 1 Material conforming to BCASpecC1.10.

Fire hazard properties: Refer to BCASpecC1.10 Table 3 which has group number requirements for wall and ceiling linings. Materials used as a finish, surface, lining, or attachment to a ceiling must be a Group 1, 2 or 3 material used in conformance to BCASpecC1.10 Table 3. Materials group number may be determined by testing to ASISO9705.

In addition, situations without sprinkler systems must have a smoke growth rate index not more than 100 when tested to ASISO9705 and BCASpecA2.4 or an average specific extinction area less than 250m2/kg when tested to AS/NZS3837.

Refer to NATSPECTECHnoteDES020 for information on fire hazard properties.

-Fire resistance level: To AS1530.4.

If the specified fire resistance level is a requirement of the building regulatory authority, you may state that satisfactory evidence of that authority’s acceptance of the ceiling system may be submitted as alternative proof of the attainment of the specified grading, and that contractor must modify the installation without extra charge if necessary to satisfy the regulatory authority that the system conforms to the specified fire resistance level. Refer to NATSPECTECHnoteDES020 for information on fire resistance levels. The BCA cites AS1530.4:2005.

Warranties

Requirement: Submit the following:

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Describe the requirements of warranties in PRODUCTS or EXECUTION, as appropriate, and list the submissions required here.

General: Submit evidence of warranties for all proposed materials and components clearly defining the warranty period and any conditions.

ASKIN® standard warranty is 2 years for workmanship and 10 years for materials.

Subject to maintenance conforming to ASKIN® Warranty and maintenance, ASKIN® standard warranty for corrosion or blistering of the skin material is 10 years for general application subject to location and can be up to 25 years depending on the substrate used and the application of it.

1.6Inspection

Notice

Inspection: Give notice so that inspection may be made of the following:

-Fastenings, penetrations, flashings, vapour barrier and insulation before covering up or concealing.

Hold points, if required, should be inserted here.

2Products

2.1General

Product substitution

Other products: Conform to PRODUCTS, GENERAL, Substitutions in the 0171 General requirements worksection.

The 0171 General requirements worksection clause sets out the submissions required if the contractor proposes alternative products.

Refer also to NATSPECTECHnoteGEN006 for more information on proprietary specification.

Fire hazard properties

Insulation: Fire hazard indices for all materials when tested to AS/NZS1530.3:

-Spread-of-flame index: ≤0.

Spread-of-flame index:

  • ASKIN® AZ150/AM100: 0.
  • ASKIN® Z275: 0.
  • ASKIN® PVDF: 0.

-Smoke-developed index: ≤3.

Smoke-developed index:

  • ASKIN® AZ150/AM100: 3.
  • ASKIN® Z275: 3.
  • ASKIN® PVDF: 3.

Facing materials: Flammability index when tested to AS1530.2: ≤5.

AS/NZS1530.3 is a mandatory standard in the BCA. Smoke-developed index and Spread-of-flame index are determined under AS/NZS1530.3. Flammability index is determined under AS1530.2. See BCAC1.10. The requirements above are consistent with the BCA.

This list does not include combustibility. That is, in keeping with the BCA this clause does not prohibit the use of combustible insulation materials provided they meet the other fire properties.

ASKIN® XFLAM is a smouldering type product.

Materials with reflective facing: Test to AS/NZS1530.3 clause A6.

AS/NZS1530.3 clause A6 recommends that reflective surfaces (which would otherwise generally pass this test) be blackened and diagonally scored to simulate soot deposition onto reflective surfaces in a real fire situation.

Sealants

Materials: One-component compounds with a neutral curing mechanism, vulcanising at room temperature. Provide sealants that:

-Do not foster microbial growth.

The requirement that sealants not foster microbial growth is consistent with AS/NZS3666.1. Sealants that support mould growth (e.g. some grades of silicone) and are unsuitable for use in food preparation areas, laboratories, heath facilities and the like.

-Maintain their sealing performance for the life of the partition.

-Bond to the surface of application without primers.

-Are resistant to oils, food acids and water after curing.

-Are non-toxic.

-After curing retain their elastomeric properties over the range of room operating temperatures.

-Are suitable for application by gun or hand tools.

-Are ASKIN® approved for the application.

2.2Marking

Identification

General: Deliver materials to the site in ASKIN® packaging, legibly marked to show the following:

-Manufacturer’s identification.

-Product brand name.

-Product type.

-Handling and installation instructions.

Edit the list to suit the project or delete if not required.

2.3ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panels

General

Description: Proprietary panel exterior facade cladding system comprising manufactured, prefinished structural composite panels with metal faces bonded to each side of an insulating, ASKIN® XFLAM core.

ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panel insulation core

Material: Syntactic foam sheet with Factory Mutual certification to FM4471 and FM4880.

Prohibited materials: Do not provide materials:

-Which use CFC or HCFC as blowing agents in the manufacturing process.

-Which use a blowing agent with a global warming potential ≥140.

ASKIN® XFLAM is a market leading, insurer endorsed, innovative product. It is a syntactic foam with excellent mechanical properties, superior insulation values, low toxicity and is completely recyclable. ASKIN® XFLAM achieves a high insulation rating to easily achieve BCASectionJ compliance (R-Values of 1.5 to 8.10m²K/W). The high insulation value reduces the energy costs required for maintaining a comfortable and efficient environment within the building. ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panels were the first in Australasia to achieve FM accreditation in all three relevant certifications for Insulated Panel Systems – FM4471, FM4880 and FM4881. These Approvals cover full scale fire, severe hail, and hurricane conditions.

Application: Recommended for general commercial construction, specifically coolstores, supermarkets, municipal facilities, schools hospitals, food and drug manufacture, storage, distribution and cold chain.

Internal and external skins

Document requirements in the ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panel schedule. If there is only one type, delete alternatives.

Skin material and thickness: As documented.

The standard external skin material is 0.5mm AM100 colour coated steel. The standard internal skin is 0.4mm Z275 colour coated steel. AZ150, PVDF or HPS200 are available for alternate performance. All Colorbond® colours or Printech® (PVDF) steel are available. The available skin thicknesses are 0.4, 0.5 or 0.6mm depending on requirements for structural performance, and fire resistance (minimum 0.5mm external/0.4mm internal).

Factory pre-coating: Polyester to a dry film thickness of 25 microns.

Colorbond® Permagard® Off-white is standard. All Colorbond®, Colorbond® Permagard® or Printech® (PVDF) colours are available. Printech® (PVDF) is a paint finish. HPS200, a 200 micron thick polymer coating, is also available.

Profile: Provide panels with profiles as documented:

-Express joint.

-Flat.

-Mesa.

-Metric.

-Rib.

-Silkline.

-Unideck 600.

Internal wall profile is generally Flat or Rib.

Dimensions

ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panels are available in lengths up to 25 m subject to location.

Panel thickness: As documented.

Document thickness in the ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panel schedule. ASKIN® XFLAM Performance Panels are available in thicknesses from 50-250 mm in 25 mm increments. Thickness is dictated by insulation, structural capacity and fire performance required. Contact ASKIN® to discuss your project requirements.

Panel width:

-Standard module width: 1200mm.

-Metric module width: 1000mm.

2.4Components

Flashings

Standard: To AS/NZS2904.

Material: [complete/delete]

Finish: [complete/delete]

Colour: [complete/delete]

Coordinate with 0423p ASKIN XFLAM performance panel roofing.

3Execution

3.1Construction generally

Substrates or framing

Preparation: Before fixing cladding, check the alignment of substrates or framing and adjust if necessary.

Fixing

Method: Screw or bolt to timber or steel framing, or fix to concrete with dynabolts or tappits and brackets, steel flashings or aluminium extrusions.

Accessories and trim

Requirement: Provide accessories and trim necessary to complete the installation.

Metal separation

The designer should make sure of compatibility or detail separation.

See AS1562.1 Table 3.2 for guidance on the compatibility of metals. See also SAAHB39 Section 2 on material selection. It is primarily a design responsibility to make sure that incompatible metals are not documented or shown to be in contact. Preferably show the separation method on the drawings.

Corrosion can result from water run-off between incompatible surfaces. See AS1562.1 clause 3.7 and AS1562.1 Table 3.3. There are two conditions to be avoided:

  • Run-off from copper and copper alloys to aluminium, zinc, galvanized, or aluminium/zinc-coated surfaces.
  • Run-off from inert catchment surfaces such as glazed terra cotta, prepainted steel, aluminium and aluminium/zinc to galvanized surfaces.

In marine or high humidity environments green hardwood should also be separated from aluminium and coated steel.

Typical methods for metal separation include:

  • Applying an anti-corrosion low moisture transmission coating such as zinc or barium chromate primer or aluminium pigmented bituminous paint to contact surfaces.
  • Inserting a separation layer such as polyethylene film or adhesive tape, or bituminous felt.

Requirement: Prevent direct contact between incompatible metals, and between green hardwood or chemically treated timber and aluminium or coated steel, by either of the following methods: